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outcome XM-DAC-41146-ETH_D_1.6
Supportive policy environment in place to ensure gender-responsive localization and effective monitoring of the SDGs
UN Women is closely working with the Central Statistics Agency (CSA) to ensure a supportive policy environment since 2020 where the revision of the National Statistical Act, Proclamation No. 442/2005 and the development of a Gender Statistics Guideline is under way. Even though a revised Act has been prepared the adoption of it has been stalled because of the current government restructuring in Ethiopia which may affect the mandate of the CSA. In the meantime, UN Women is supporting CSA to develop the third National Strategy for Development of Statistics (NSDS III) and five-year sectoral plan for CSA. UN Women financially and technically supported a Consultative Workshop on NSDS III with management members of CSA. UN Women also provided written inputs on the NSDS III and sectoral plan to ensure that both are gender responsive. The adoption of a gender-responsive NSDS III and CSA five-years sector plan will have a gap filling role in creating a supportive policy environment for gender statistics until the draft Act and Guideline are adopted. Considering the challenge faced for the adoption of a policy environment with the restructuring of the CSA employing a flexible approach to adopt to changes is a lesson learned in the implementation of the outcome. UN Women will continue to engage CSA under the Ministry of Planning and Development to ensure workflow under the new mandate and achieve the long-term goal in putting in place a supportive policy environment for gender statistics.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-ETH_D_1.7
Women are promoted as leaders in gender sensitive political institutions
This outcome was achieved in 2021. The capacity of 380 women members and candidates of political parties drawn from political parties running at national and regional level was enhanced on critical skill of political empowerment including public speaking, campaigning, political leadership, voter outreach and fundraising to ensure that women candidates have enhanced capacity to compete on a more equal standing with men. using the UN Women HQ manual and workbook on Political Leadership and Candidates Training (2019). 1300 women candidates (around 70% of total candidates), drawn from all political parties running for federal parliament and regional council were also trained on gender equality and electoral normative frameworks on women’s participation in public and political life. The training has equipped women leaders with the skills to move into elected positions will not only create space for other women to gain much needed experience through special seats, it will also increase their legitimacy and standing within political structures. Currently , women hold 42 % seats (181 out of 425 seats) in the Parliament after the 6th General Election held on June 2021. The first ever interparty debate on gender equality and commitment of political parties ahead of the 6th general election and was transmitted in main TV station called Fana TV. The debate brought together four main political parties (Prosperity Party; Ethiopian Citizen's for Social Justice Party (ECSJ); Afar People's party (APP) and National Movement of Amhara Party (NAMA) running at regional and national level. The debate provided an opportunity for the public to get an insight into the debating political parties party programs and policies regarding commitments on the promotion of gender equality in Ethiopia. A national dialogue forum was held among women candidates and members of political parties to create a platform for women politicians to come together to discuss challenges and opportunities in promoting gender equality as a political agenda and to discuss on how strengthen women politicians’ council (initiated in 2020). UN Women Supported NEBE in launching a Female Political Party Members Joint Council on in Ethiopia, an idea raised in UN Women capacity building programme held in the year 2019 and promoted in subsequent capacity building programme of UN Women for candidates. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between members was signed during the workshop. UN Women will continue to support the council to promote women political participation in Ethiopia. UN Women has been providing strategic support to the House of Peoples’ Representative’s (HoPR) (Parliament) and its Secretariat to ensure the institution is gender sensitive in exercising its representative, legislative and oversight function. UN Women has supported the HoPR and its Secretariat in undertaking a gender audit facilitating stock taking of the journey that the current Parliament took in terms of its gender focused work and gender mainstreaming efforts in its mechanism and structures. The audit report will be used for further intervention in the Parliament with new parliamentarians following the 6th General Election. A training on gender responsive budgeting was provided to Secretariat staff of the HoPR targeting 61 participants (24 women and 37 men) using Gender Responsive Budgeting Toolkit prepared for Parliamentarians. UN Women will follow if the Secretariat and HoPR practices gender responsive budgeting principles while delivering on the mandate of the House. UN Women contributed in promoting for electoral frameworks to be gender responsive in light of the 6th General Election. To this effect, support was provided to key electoral stakeholders including, electoral management body staff, accredited CSOs, medias and media monitoring bodies, national human rights institutions, male and female political party members on how to mainstream gender in their electoral engagement through gender and elections trainings. A media campaign was also conducted through a launch of a well-received collaborative music video, ‘Yehager Kasma’ (roughly translated as Pillar of the Nation), featuring several prominent Ethiopian artists encouraging the participation of women in the elections. In addition, 24 media outreach programme was conducted, in collaboration with the EHRC and local CSO (NEWA), targeting the public to promote women participation in politics as votes, candidates, members of political and as members of EMBs. The public outreach programme was able to reach a wide audience, in four local languages, and a sign language and aired on Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation, with nationwide reach. After conducting a “Rapid Assessment on Violence Against Women during Elections(VAWE)”, in collaboration with EHRC, a capacity building training that brought together 29 (15 women, 14 men) participants representing key electoral stakeholders was held. NEBE and CSOs trained in gender inclusive voter education were able to conduct gender inclusive voter education in eight local FM radio stations, 51 community radios, and 4 regional TVs, a roadshow in 197 Woredas and two Federal Cities, eleven women election literacy training in six regions, and a consultative meeting with 43 religious leaders and community elders in four regions in Ethiopia.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-ETH_D_1.8
Gender statistics are accessible to all users (including government, civil society, academia, and private sector) and can be analyzed to inform research, advocacy, policies and programmes and promote accountability.
UN Women has increased the accessibility of gender statistics to users. UN Women disseminated gender statistics reports and publications on GEWE issues to sector ministries and CSO organizations and using various platforms including the Launching and Dissemination Workshop (9 February 2021), Annual Partner’s Meeting (27 October 2021), Annual CSO Forum (21 December 2021), Inception Meeting on the Assessment of the Situation of Women in the Informal Sector SMEs affected by COVID- 19 (2 December 2021) and accompanying letters sent out to partner’s offices. The disseminated publications include the Assessment on the Mainstreaming of Gender on the National Statistical System, Assessment on Representation of Persons with Disabilities in the labour force, Gender Statistics Booklet, Mapping of CSOs Report, UNCT SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard Report 2020, Amharic Translation of the CEDAW Concluding Observations to the 8th State Report of Ethiopia, Advocacy and Communication Strategy of Central Statistics Agency (2021 - 2025) and Gender Statistics Report. This is besides the dissemination of the knowledge products in soft copies to government, CSO and development partners. UN Women, under the Pilot Project on Citizen-Generated Data (CGD) with the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction held four user-producer workshops on SDGs and CGD and one Seminar on Gender Statistics with Ethiopian Statistics Association and Central Statistics Agency (CSA). The Seminar was held in Addis Ababa under the theme “Production and Use of Gender Statistics for the Effective Implementation and Monitoring of Policy Commitments in Ethiopia”. The user-producer dialogue platforms brought together users and producers of gender statistics from CSA, sector ministries and CSOs in Amhara Regional State and Federal. The continuous engagement among producers and users of data improves the accessibility of data as it creates transparency on the availability and existing demand of gender data. Furthermore, the platforms are used to present research and studies conducted on gender statistics. UN Women will continue its close collaboration with CSA, ESA and CSOs to improve the data flow between data producers and users. To improve the profile of statistics in Ethiopia and better communication and accessibility of data, UN Women supported the drafting, review, finalisation, adoption and publication of an Advocacy and Communication Strategy (2021 – 2025) for CSA. The development of the Strategy started in 2020. In 2021, the review, adoption, publication and dissemination of the Strategy took place. The adoption of the Strategy will guide the use and dissemination of data in CSA for which UN Women will continue its support. Furthermore, to increase the accessibility of Data a Dashboard on SDGs and National Development Plans is set up in Planning and Development Commission (PDC/now Ministry). UN Women, in collaboration with the SDG Centre for Africa, started the process in 2019 with PDC. In 2021, the Dashboard has gone through final approval by Ethiopia Information Network Security Agency and has become functional. In March 2021, UN Women procured a Software License for the Dashboard that ensured its functionality. The Dashboard, which uses the Ten Years Development Plans are aligned to the SDG indicators as a bases for reporting, will increase the availability and accessibility of regular and comparable data on statistics. In improving accessibility of gender statistics, the role non-state actors can play was evident in the implementation of the outcome. Thus, UN Women will continue to diversify its partnership to create a better platform for accessibility of regular, comparable and reliable gender data based on the lesson learned.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-ETH_D_2.1
Women sustainable livelihoods enhanced by gender-responsive services and access and control over means of production and resources.
Agricultural and Rural Development draft policy improved with gender responsive women’s land right components included. UN Women collaborated with the Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Transformation Agency as well as the other members of Gender working groups, supported the process to improve gender responsive public services. Policy reviews and dialogues with staff capacity building on gender mainstreaming and analysis, gender related research carried out by UN Women and partners enhanced gender responsive service delivery. UN Women in collaboration with different stakeholders and implementing partners, enhanced gender responsive services provision, access and control over means of production and resources by women and female youth in Ethiopia towards women sustainable livelihoods enhancement. Interventions contributed to increased access and control over productive resources such as land, agricultural inputs, technologies/tools and business development services, finances, market opportunities and insurance coverage. Women businesses resilience sustained in such challenging times of COVID 19 outbreak and conflicts in the country. Livelihood of women and families improved so resilience and employment opportunities . Government stakeholders and local partners as well as businesswomen knowledge has improved as a result of national and regional experience sharing visit conducted. This has been demonstrated through replication of key lessons in project locations and households. One of the lessons is integrated agriculture replicated by women farmers started generating new incomes from sells of fish and poultry in East Showa Zone of Oromia regional state. The experience from exchange visits published for wider knowledge sharing. The report of the visits has also been made public for more replication and upscaling.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-ETH_D_2.2
A gender responsive policy, social and economic environment is in place to promote women and girls' economic empowerment and sustainable development
Significant contribution was made to enable 8344 women and female youth in two regions (Oromia and Afar) to get capacity to work in climate smart agriculture and agribusiness. Of these, 4300 were supported through Joint Program for Rural Women Economic Empowerment (JPRWEE) and 4044 were reached through the Gender Transformative Climate Smart Agriculture and Agri-Business Programme of UN Women. Partnership improved with federal government, JPRWEE participating agencies and implementing partners such as SAWAEE, SOSSE and Oromia and Afar Women, children and youth affairs, cooperative promotion agency, agriculture bureaus and offices and other stakeholders. Through coordination and partnership for women economic empowerment, capacity building trainings, exposure visits and field level technical support were provided with agricultural inputs, improved seeds, improved livestock varieties and technologies at individual levels and through their organizations (cooperatives and enterprises). Coordinated and continuous advocacy on the issue of unpaid care and domestic work and decent employment for women and girls through Inclusive Growth Policies and Investments in the Care Economy conducted. In support of this, UN Women ECO in collaboration with Ministry of Women and Social Affairs (MOWSA) and consultant support, a task force established and prepared advocacy guideline and training of trainers, training manual on unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) and investment in care economy. Capacity of stakeholders improved through training provided on the validation process and documents improved. As a result, gender responsive polices and legal frameworks and their enforcement in coordinated manner facilitated. Access to productive resources by women increased because of various women institutions established by programmatic interventions. Of the total 4500 targets, 1,311 women have managed to get land/working premises and improved livestock varieties in the project locations (29%). Of these 1,191 women that have been organized into 33 women’s agribusiness institutions were legalized and acquired working lands from the local government. 120 women organized in two dairy farm and marketing cooperatives have got improved variety of livestock (Milking cows) through the work carried out with local partners. Women management skills improved with the training on basic cooperative/enterprise principles and management .Showing 6 - 10 of 20